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What can mud in the Finger Lakes tell us about the Industrial Revolution?
Please join the Chemistry and Geosciences Department and the Rochester
Committee for Scientific Information for this year's
presentation: “Researching Fossil and Sedimentary
Records of Lake Histories: Focusing on the Western Finger
Lakes” on Thursday, April 28th at 7pm via Zoom (see
attachment and/or below for Zoom link).
Presentation Abstract: Freshwater ecosystems like
lakes, have long been influenced by anthropogenic activities such as
agriculture, climate, and industry. Lake ecosystems are especially affected in
terms of shifts in community dominance, invasion of foreign fauna, harmful
cyano-algal blooms caused by agricultural run-off and introduction/regulation
of sediment and nutrients. These anthropogenic stressors alter the water
circulation, trophic state, and biodiversity of a given lake system.
Development of tools to monitor the impact humans have on lake environments is
necessary to identify at risk or severely altered habitats as well as to track
the remediation of previously impacted habitats. This talk highlights a
preliminary investigation and assessment of the biodiversity and geohistorical
record of three Finger Lakes: Conesus, Canadice, and Honeoye in Western New
York. All three lakes show a diverse living invertebrate community representing
a modern novel ecosystem representing post-impact recovery after eutrophication
of the lakes occurred during the 20th century. The geohistorical record of
Conesus Lake evaluated using cored lake sediments preserves a clear signal of
European settlement and industrial delivery of pollutants into the lake. This
talk will showcase the application of paleobiological and sedimentological
techniques to establish objective baselines for measuring the success of
remediation and restoration efforts in aquatic ecosystems.
Presentor Information: Dr. Malinowski
received her B.S. in Geology at Beloit College, WI where she developed her
interest in the field of paleontology on a Keck Consortium Research project
investigating Silurian tentaculitoids from Arisaig, Nova Scotia. Dr. Malinowski
further pursued her career receiving a M.S. at the University of Cincinnati
investigating the paleoecology and diversity of Ordovician tentaculitoids and
then focused more on the recent for her Ph.D. at Virginia Tech where she
investigated the sequence stratigraphy and paleoecology of the Quaternary
deposits of the Po Plain, Italy. Dr. Malinowski has done extensive research on
combining paleobiological techniques with modern biological systems at the
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and continues this focus on merging
conservation and paleobiology at SUNY Geneseo.
Webinar Zoom link: https://monroecommunity.zoom.us/j/88545979936?pwd=WDRvVVRNWmxiQVFjWkVP
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Passcode: 622113
Attached Files:
RCSI 2022 Annual Meeting Announcement - MCC.pdf
Barone, Jessica
Chemistry and Geosciences
03/31/2022